Sigvaldi J. Kárason, co-director, is up for some inquisition:

“We had always wanted to make a video for Hjörvar, not only because he’s an old friend and we love his music, but also because we ourselves wanted to step more into creating music videos after many years of working in the film and TV business. Me and Björn Ófeigsson (co-director) met up with Daníel Stefánsson for a brainstorm session, and after listening to the song and throwing back and forth ideas we really felt we wanted to deliver the urgent feeling of loneliness expressed in the song. The resemblance of Hjörvar’s music to the music of David Bowie led us towards the atmosphere in The Man Who Fell to Earth, and from there we were led towards other movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes.”

“Right from the start we knew we didn’t want to get fixed in contemporary style, or any other time period whatsoever – we wanted to make a “timeless” and solitary video. Then we simply laid out the work plan, created a storyboard, pulled in favours from friends and colleagues around us and started working. The shooting session took us three days and the post production around one month. There were some restrictions from the beginning regarding the financial side of the project, but we nonetheless took it all the way – in the end we didn’t compromise in any aspect.”

“We wanted to keep the special effects as old school as possible by using back projection where ever we could instead of a green screen. We used up to 4 projections at the same time in some shots. Through some fluke of luck we acquired the lenses actually used in shooting special effects in Back to the Future, thanks to Douglas Trumbull (the visual effect wizard from movies like 2001 and Blade Runner) and it was challenging to use these 30-40 year old still lenses on our Red One camera. But it really gave the shots the extra special softness we needed.”

Artist: Hjörvar. Song: See the Sea
Directed by Sigvaldi J. Kárason and Björn Ófeigsson
Director of Photography: Tómas Örn Tómasson
2D and 3D Compositing: Pétur Karlsson
Consultant: Daníel Stefánsson
Makeup: Ísak Freyr Helgason.


see the sea

Mothers

Never enough

demo af væntanlegri plötu frá Hjörvar
hljóðfæraleikur ,Guðni Finnson -bassi,Arnar þór Gíslason -trommur,Þorbjörn Sigurðsson -hljómborð,Birkir Rafn Gíslason-Gítar,Hjörvar Hjörleifsso-Söngur

Afurða Ríkið  Ruff demo

hér er um upprunalega útgáfu á Hvar hvíla þín bein að ræða sem kemur til með að hljóma á nýrri plötu Hjörvars  snemma árs 2014 (þó í allt annari útgáfu)

Hvar Hvíla Þín Bein  Demo

This song is  inspired by Christmas, please enjoy!!
Af jólaplötunni Demo jól sem kemur út árið 20??

What a night

Inspired by christmas 2014
Af jólaplötunni Demo jól sem kemur út árið 20??

Here Comes Christmas !!

Þetta verður fyrsta lag í spilun af væntanlegri plötu minni sem nú spannar á fjórða ár í vinnslu og sér loksins fyrir endann á. Lagið var samið fyrir u.þ.b. fjórum árum; það var samið til Victors sonar míns og fjallar textinn um það hversu erfitt getur verið fyrir feður að koma orðum að hlutunum við syni sína.

Gjörið svo vel og botnið og njótið í græjunum og deilið gjarnan líka!!!

This is the first song to be released from my new album "Hólar" coming out in spring 2016
Please enjoy !! and share if you like